Who cares if we're still 'Lost'?
And 'Hawaii Five-O' remake could turn out to be a good idea
We're 14 hours away from the end of "Lost," and I have absolutely no idea what's going on.
Still.
OK, I have a few guesses. A few ideas. But I'm not going to share them with you because I don't really have a clue what I'm talking about.
(Gee, I'd be a terrible blogger, wouldn't I?)
This sort of thing used to be horribly frustrating. In a way, it's what made "X-Files" unwatchable in its last few seasons. All that one-step-forward, two-steps-back stuff was just so much audience manipulation.
And, clearly, the writers of that show never had any intention of answering our questions. Because they were mostly concerned with keeping the show alive and launching a movie franchise.
And we saw how well that worked out, didn't we?
There's no such problem with "Lost." The end is coming, and it will be the end.
"There's not going to be an implanted sequel. There's not going to be a secret back-door pilot embedded in that," executive producer Carlton Cuse told TV critics. "The story of 'Lost' that we've been telling for these six seasons is coming to a close this May."
Whew!
And that's why watching this last season of "Lost" hasn't been driving me crazy. If I thought there were years of this left to go, I might be tempted to give up.
(Although probably not. I did, after all, stick with it through the incredibly aggravating Season 2.)
There are 14 hours left to go — 12 one-hour episodes and a two-hour finale. Personally, I'm not counting on figuring a whole lot out until those final two hours.
For now, we ought to just enjoy the ride and not strain our brains.
Besides, what fun would the finale be if we figured it all out in advance?
A "HAWAII FIVE-O" REMAKE might sound like sort of a lame idea — but then so did remaking "Star Trek," complete with a new Kirk and Spock.
And yet last year's "Star Trek" movie was a huge critical and box-office success.
And the guys who wrote that movie — Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci — are involved in the "Hawaii Five-O" remake.
It's not like everything they do is golden. They are, after all, responsible for the scripts for both "Transformers" movies.







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